Up the Downstairs Case by Bell Kaufman

Homeschooling numbers suggest you're right. It's very optimistic in terms of alternatives to the traditional public school system. One of my favorite American books, which was published in 1961 is about what it is like to work as a young person in a massive bureaucracy. And I just struck by this because that book came before there were any issues relating to politics and education let's say or, or and when the New York City school system was still considered a glory of the world educational system.